HealtH & fitness £15m boost for Haringey sites


Leisure trust Fusion Lifestyle has announced plans to invest £15m in improving four north London leisure centres aſter signing a management deal with Haringey Council. Te deal will see Fusion run


Te new Holt Park facility will open in October


Doors close on Holt Park Leisure Centre, Leeds


Te Holt Park Leisure Centre, Leeds, UK, closed its doors for the last time just before Christmas with the opening of a £28m replacement facility due this October (2013). Leeds City Council is overseeing the building of the new Holt Park Active, at nearby Holtdale Approach, and interim facilities are being provided around the community in the meantime. Facilities will include a 25m swimming


pool; a Bodyline fitness suite; a hydrother- apy pool; a large activity hall; and hubs for older people and individuals with learn- ing difficulties. A studio, café and meeting areas will also form part of the new Holt Park Active, which is to provide a new com- munity hub for the area. Interserve Project Services is the contractor.Te government confirmed final approval for the project in December 2011, with the work being funded through a Private Finance Initiative. Mentor, a partnership comprising


FaulknerBrowns Architects and GHM Rock Townsend, designed the scheme, which is being delivered through the Local Education Partnership. Details: http://lei.sr?a=q0a4n


Refurb for Vodafone HQ health club


Te corporate health club at the head office of Vodafone is to receive an upgrade. Nuffield Health – which operates the club


at Edison House, Newbury, Berkshire, on behalf of telecommunications giant – has appointed interior designer Platform to design the redevelopment. Platform has been tasked with turning


the 1,430sq m gym into a dynamic exer- cise space, expanding the existing footprint of the gym and creating different zones for weights, aerobic exercise, stretching, resistance training and indoor cycling. Details: http://lei.sr?a=x0m5k


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Park Road and Tottenham Green Leisure Centres and Broadwater Farm Community Centre under a 20-year con- tract, and White Hart Lane Leisure Centre for the next three years. Staff have already been kitted out with new uni- forms and improvements to centre facilities will begin summer 2013. Te leisure centres offer flexible member-


Staff at the Park Road centre - one of the sites to undergo a revamp


ship packages with no long-term contract and facilities on offer include group exercise, rac- quet sports, sports halls, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, saunas, therapy rooms, as well as conference and events facilities. Fusion has a management board made up of voluntary


individuals with objectives to improve com- munity access to sport and leisure facilities. Haringey borough is the fourth most deprived


in London and 29.2 per cent of the population is among the 10 per cent most deprived in the country. Fusion will hold customer forums to get feedback on future services and facilities. Details: http://lei.sr?a=S8d7Z


More women needed as personal trainers


Britain needs more female personal trainers, figures from the Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) reveal, with women only making up 35 per cent of the profession. Currently 5,256 women make up the 13,770 trainers regis- tered with REPs. This is despite the fact a


career in personal training can fit around the demands of raising a family. Chief executive of the


Only a third of all PTs are women, a figure WSFF wants to change


Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) Sue Tibballs said female personal trainers act as sporting role models for women and girls. “It’s a great time for women to get


involved in the fitness industry - successful female athletes, like Jessica Ennis and Laura Trott, have made it aspirational to be fit


and healthy and women’s fitness is finally entering the mainstream.” Personal training academy Te Training


Room take in around 2,500 people each year but the percentage of women on their courses is approximately 22 per cent. Details: http://lei.sr?a=X7Z5U


£4m pool opens in Tyne and Wear


A new £4m swimming pool has been unveiled in South Shields, Tyne and Wear. Te pool, which was built using a combi-


nation of funds from the former Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Building Schools for the Future programme,


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is on the site of Jarrow School. Te 25m, four- lane pool has a hydraulic floor and a deep end to allow competitive swimmers to dive. Te pool forms part of a larger £16m project,


that will see the addition of a health club with two dance studios and fitness testing space.


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